I had a triple boot windows 7, Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 11.10. I deleted the partition that the 11.10 was in and now I have free space on my ext4 partition. I want to use that space which is located in my ext4 partition for my sda/5 mounted at / for my linux 10.10. But the problem is that the free space isn't next to sda/5, its next to sda/7 which is my grub boot memory. Is there a way to fix this I'm not sure if I can create a new partition for my home directory which would work I guess if that's possible. I worried because I don't want to mess anything up. Also should I use software like gparted to change partitions?

This is not a good answer because: 1. he first needs to create a partition on the new space and format it. 2. you did not include the part where he needs to BACKUP HIS OLD HOME DIR before doing what you stated.
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KaurinMar 6 '12 at 17:34